Veranstaltungshinweise

Critical Dialogues im Sommersemester 2026

Regelmäßige Projektreffen zum Austausch und zur Diskussion relevanter Themen (bei Interesse gerne schreiben an: matthias.schumann@zo.uni-heidelberg.de) 

Vortragsreihe: PERIPHERAL FUTURES—Reading History from the “Margins"

Where is future created? Based on some of the research done in the Thematic Research Network Denk(t)räume–(Re)thinking and Building Futures and at CAPAS (the Center for Apocalyptic and Postapocalyptic studies), this event series takes the question of building futures from the margins as its starting point for a review of some of the seminal literature in global history. The aim of the event series is to foreground marginalized sources (material peripheries e.g. the “un-disciplined" knowledge produced by the arts) and positions (socio-political pheripheries e.g. that of indigenous protesters), and regions of the world (spatial peripheries, e.g. parts of the world that do not make headline news) as well as specific times (chronological pheripheries: questioning why there may be a privileging of specific periods in time while neglecting others). In taking what is read as “marginal,” its voices and sources seriously, and by including  artistic and activist resources, this  event series offers an intervention to established academic reasoning: at a time when apocalyptic narratives and authoritarian visions of the future dominate public discourse, the events focus on different forms of “critical hope” that can emerge in times of crisis: analytically grounded, socially engaged, and convinced that a diverse, collectively shaped future arises from the productive tension between different worldviews, the event series sets out to test out transcultural perspectives on and alternative approaches to the writing of histories (of and for the future).

Termine:

29.4. 18.00 c.t.  LECTURE CATS Auditorium 

Diamantis Panagiotopoulos (Heidelberg) 

What future(s) for the past. Peripheral cultural heritage beyond resilience

6.5. 18-20 LECTURE 

Louis HERNAN (CAPAS) 

Borderland Utopias: Creative Engagements at the End of the World 

17.5. 17-20 PERFORMANCE Neue Aula der Universität 

Mozart—Bridges—Requiem

22./23.5.  PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP 

古今对话：昆曲的当代回响

Dialogues Across Time and Space: Contemporary Resonances of Kunqu Opera

22.5. 18-20 Völkerkundemuseum, Museum of Ethnology, Palais Weimar, Hauptstraße 235, Heidelberg Performance and Discussion 

23.5. 10-13 CATS Auditorium Workshop

3.6. 16-18 or 18-20  SCREENING CATS Auditorium 

The Returning Tide: Feminist Activists in East Asia 

… with Film Directors: Xu Xiaotong, Yang (Iris) Yu 

10.6 18-20 LECTURE-PERFORMANCE CATS Auditorium 

Gao Yinfu (Frankfurt)

Revisiting “Half the Sky, the whole sky”—How to dance Ding Ling 丁玲 (1904-1986) and why  

17.6. 18-20 CATS LECTURE CATS Auditorium

Sujata Patel (FRIAS)

Is Anti-Colonial Social Theory Critical Theory? Some Observations 

24.6. 18-20 LECTURE  LECTURE ROOM HCTS 212 

Debolina Chatterjee (CAPAS) 

Mapping Apocalyptic Visions in Carceral Spaces 

1.7. 18-20  LECTURE 

Rolf Scheuermann (Heidelberg) 

Tibetan Buddhist Strategies for Coping with the Climate Crisis 

15.7. 18-20  LECTURE 

Tsung-Han Tsai (CAPAS)

‘Yet the music had promised us”: Musical biopolitics in Rebecca West’s Apocalyptic Imaginaries 

16.7 14-22 LECTURE PERFORMANCE

EXCURSION TO FRANKFURT/Ensemble Modern: Music as Resistance